Re: Grinding sync motors with an angle grinder :-))

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• Subject: Re: Grinding sync motors with an angle grinder :-))
• From: "Jim Lux" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
• Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 09:08:20 -0600
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> 
> My rotor is 3.2226 inches across.  I am cutting flats 0.850 wide.  My 1/4
> HP A.O. Smith motor has 36 metal chunks in the outer motor part (not the
> rotor).

That's called the field.. 


  I am measuring from center-of-flat to center-of flat on four of
> them.  There are three notches with the skinny wires in between notches
> with the heavy wire.  The metal chunk with a heavy winding on one side
and
> a skinny one on the other is were you measure from.  I guess these are
the
> "half dead" poles. ;-))

Those are called "salient poles"

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